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The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the world's largest torrent tracker".

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• The Pirate Bay: http://thepiratebay.org
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay

Perl Programming Language

Nine years ago Perl was the undisputed king of scripting languages. Python, Ruby and a cadre of others were riding its coattails.

We were promised a new version that would right the wrongs of the previous. Now, nine years later, Perl 6 is still not out and those other, "lesser" languages have overtaken Perl in almost every field. Perl is now fast on its way to irrelevancy.

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• Wikipedia Perl 6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6
• Perl Monks: http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=561229
• Digg: http://digg.com/programming/Perl_is_dying

Friends Reunited

Friends Reunited is now apparently worth maybe 10% of what ITV paid for it in 2005 and it's up for sale. Its unique user count is down by 60% over the last 3 years. Think ITV will find a buyer? Think a buyer can keep it afloat?

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• The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/16/friends-reunited-worth-20m
• Friends Reunited: http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/

Twitters servers

Crowds of celebrities seem to be piling onto Twitter of late and their millions of fans are soon to follow.

Twitter have obviously been bolstering their system over the last year - the fail whale is becoming a distant memory - but will it be enough to prevent melt down?

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MySQL AB

It’s been in the news for a few days: two of the MySQL execs, Martin Mickos and Monty Widenus, are leaving Sun Microsystems, Sun having bought and absorbed MySQL AB.

It’s a well-known joke that being bought-out by Sun is the kiss of death. So what happens to MySQL now, and what happens in the open-source database space?

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• Mysql.com: http://www.mysql.com/
• Zetetic: http://www.zetetic.net/blog/2009/02/10/the-state-of-mysql-the-elephant-in-the-room

Myspace

"News Corp reported a 16 percent decline in ad revenue within its Fox Interactive Media (FIM) subsidiary, which includes MySpace."

With increasing competition and no obvious innovation of their own, is this the beginning of the end of Myspace? Or is it the middle of the end?

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• Clickz: http://www.clickz.com/3633666
• WSJ: Worst is over: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124164072383592755.html